Butter-worker



(No Model.) J. MQANESPEY.

Butter Worker. No. 241,046. Patented May 3, i881.

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JOHN MOANESPEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BUTTER-WORKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,046, dated May 3, 1881.

Application filed February 28, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN MoANEsPEY, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Butter-WVorkers, of which the following is a specification.

The invention consists in a body having rim and boss, a shaft passing through the body and connected by a gear with a hand crank-shaft, a cross-piece provided with a median square hole fitting a squared part of the body-shaft, and beveled rolls arrangedon journals of crosspiece, all as hereinafter described.

Figure 1 is a top view of my improved but tor-worker. Fig. 3 is a sectional view, showing the mechanism for revolving the workers and Fig. 4 is a detail showing the means for elevating one side of the body.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The bed or body A, upon which the butter is worked, is formed with the circumferential rim 1) and the central boss, d, the annular table I), of suitable width, being thus formed between them. The rollers or workers B B, which are carried around upon the table and perform the working of the butter, are in the form of truncated cones, and are placed on the bearings k k on the ends of the cross-piece K, which rests upon the boss (I, and is revolved by means of the vertical shaft D, which passes through the opening 0 in the body A, and through the square opening a in the center of said cross-piece, the upper end of the shaft being square, as shown at m, to fit the same, motion being imparted to the vertical shaft D by means of the cog-wheel E secured to its lower end, which meshes with the cog-wheel F secured to the inner end of the horizontal shaft G, the opposite end of said shaft G being provided with the crank H. The rim bis provided at one side of the worker with the grated open- Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same.

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ings P, through which the buttermilk, brine, and other liquid is permitted to pass off during working of the butter. The body is supported by the legs a a, and the leg a is provided at the bottom with a cut-away portion or recess, 6, in which the stilt I is pivoted by the bolt 1', which serves to elevate, when desired, one side of the worker, to facilitate the passage of the milk, brine, &c. The stilt, when brought to a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 4, for elevating the table, is held in that position by the button L, which is pivoted to the leg below the stilt and adapted to be turned in front of said stilt, as shown in Fig. 4.

In operation the butter to be worked is placed upon the annular bed I) and the wheels or workers revolved by the crank H. In case the butter is very hard and the rollers are not of sufficient weight to perform the working properly, the removable weight N may be placed upon the cross-piece K, as shown in Fig. 2, by which means the workers are held down with greater force. The removable weight should also be used when a large quantity of butter is being worked. By this means it will be perceived that a butter-worker thus constructed can be effectively and conveniently used under all circumstances.

Having thus described my inven tion, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patout- A butter-worker consisting of the body A with rim Z) and boss d, the shaft D passing through it and connected by gear E F with a hand crank-shaft, the cross-piece K, provided with a median square hole fittinga square part, m, of said shaft, and the beveled rolls B B arranged on journals of said cross-piece, as shown and described.

JOHN MGANESPEY. Witnesses:

GEORGE McANEsPEY, WILLIAM MOANESPEY. 

